Eastern Sun, 8 May 1970

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY <& Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1338 Friday, 8 May 1970. MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon PAY DOUBLED FOR CABINET
    1254 1 EXCEPT rFHE salaries of Cabinet Ministers will be increased by almost IGO per cent to make the high personal sacrifices in service of the country more bearable. With effect from June 1, Cabinet Ministers will have their salaries increased from $2,500 to $4,500 a month, the
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    Lock icon JAPAN'S ROLE FOR PEACE
    77 1 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI) Prime Minister Eisaku Sato said today Japan plans aD active role in the forthcoming Jakarta conference called by Indonesia to explore possible solutions to the Cambodian crisis. Mr. Sato told the Diet (Parliament! that he feels a "constructive formula" for peace in Cambodia
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    Lock icon Nair Pledges Restraint By Labour
    313 1 TRADE unions will be realistic in asking for wage increases which have to be directly related to increases in productivity and profitability, the Se-cretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress, Mr. C. V. Devan Nair, pledged yesterday. He was commenting on Prime Minister Lee Kuan
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    Lock icon Razak Ends Iran Visit
    56 1 TEHERAN. Thurs. (Reuter) Malayaslan Deputy Premier Tun Abdul Razak, last night called for more economic social and cultural co-operation between Iran and Malaysia. Tun Razak. left for Kuala Lumpur shortly after midnight. He ended a four -day visit as guest of Foreign Minister Ardashlr Zahedl. He
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    Lock icon SWAYED PUBLIC OPINION
    143 1 AUSTIN, Texas, Thurs. CU PI) Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith told a rally of 3,000 students at the University of Texas yesterday that developments in Cambodia and the death of four students at Kent State University has swayed public opinion. Galbraith members of the Texas Faculty, and
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    Lock icon New Air Group Plan
    98 1 TOKYO. Japan Thurs. YReuter) —Officials of three international airport organisations will meet here from Ma v 10 to 16 to consider the possibility of forming a Single body, which could be a counterpart of the International Air Transport Association (lATA). lATA is a unified world I>odv
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    Lock icon VIETCONG AMBUSH HALTS ARMY DRIVE
    524 1 OHNOM PENH, Thurs. (AFP) The Cambodian Army drive to push the Vietcong from the west bank of the Mekong was halted today by a skilfully laid Vietcong ambush. A company of Vietcong h*d dug themselves into a village and tor th e "hole day Held
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    Lock icon SECURITY FOR WILSON'S SON AND FATHER
    217 1 Kidnap Threats BRIGHTON, England, Thurs. (UPI) Police with dogs guarded the ton of Prime Minister Harold Wilson today and his father moved into the official residence at 10 Downing Street for safety after threats to kidnap them. Police said forces moved onto the grounds
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    Lock icon Saigon Calls Troops Back
    96 1 SAIGON, Thurs. (UPI) The South Vietnamese High Command announced today it had ordered 6,000 government troops to return to Vietnam in the first withdrawal of allied forces involved in operations in Cambodia. The government infantry, rangers and armoured units were ordered pulled out of the southern
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    Lock icon Congested Phone Lines To Jurong
    152 2 TH Minister for Communications, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin disclosed in Parliament yesterday that about 40 percent of the congested traffic load of the telephone services in Jurong Town has been met during peak hours. In a reply to a question raised by Mr. Ho Kah
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    Lock icon Mr. H. C. Sargent, Australian Trade Commissioner, Singapore, presented 25,000 apples to Dr. Wong Mook Qui, Assistant Director of Medical Services (Dental) at the opening of the Dental Health Exhibition at Victoria Memorial Hall this week. The presentation was made on behalf of the Australian Apple & Pear Board for distribution to schoolchildren visiting the exhibition. The exhibition is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily until Sunday.
    68 2 Mr. H. C. Sargent, Australian Trade Commissioner, Singapore, presented 25,000 apples to Dr. Wong Mook Qui, Assistant Director of Medical Services (Dental) at the opening of the Dental Health Exhibition at Victoria Memorial Hall this week. The presentation was made on behalf of the Australian Apple Pear Board for distribution
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    Lock icon WORKER STABBED MAN WHO STOLE HIS WIFE
    470 2 A paint-maker, Koh Seng Kim, admitted in court that he stabbed a man who ran away with his wife. The man had also cheated his wife of her money, he told the court. Koh said this in his defence for causing hurt to
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    Lock icon Air Defence: 'Blue Print In Hand'
    99 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A blue print for 3 joint air defence system for the Malaysia-Singa-pore region after the British withdrawal has been drawn up by a five-power advisory working group. This was disclosed today by the outgoing Com-mander-in-Chief of the British Far Command. Admiral
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    Lock icon HK Stock Mart Bounces Back
    74 2 HONG KONG. Thurs. (UPI) The Hong Kong Stock Market bounced back Wednesday after several days of downward trends. The Hang Seng marketwlde index rose by 4.45 points to close at 172.91. A spokesman for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange said the market has recovered from
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    Lock icon Border Reds No Threat Of '2nd Emergency'
    244 2 PENANG, Thurs. The recent stepping up of Communist activities along the Malaysia-Thai border does not pose a threat of a second emergency in Malaysia, the Chief of Armed Forces Staff, Gen. Tan Sri Abdul Hamid bin Bidin, said today. "If we are prepared.
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    Lock icon Charity Drive Tuesday
    66 2 A Tea Ceremony Flower Arrangement Demonstration and sale of handmade articles. will be held at the residence of the Ambassador of Japan. No 5. Tyersall Road. Singapore from 10 30 a.m. to 12.00 noon, on Tuesday. The function is being organised bv the Women's Circle of the
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    Lock icon New Phone Link-up
    50 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A high quality telephone service between Malaysia and Indonesia has been established following the recent commissioning of the satellite earth station at Kuantan. A statement issued today by the Ministry of Works. Posts and Telecommunications. said the service via satellite is now available round-the-clock.
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    Lock icon Sick Fisherman just 'Disappeared' From His Vessel
    267 2 A crew member who "eased himself more than ten times a day" mysteriously vanished while on board a fishing vessel/ a Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Th" court yesterday held an inquiry into the disappearance of Lim Koon Kee, 45, on Febru- ary
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    Lock icon Call Up Of Reserves Denied
    98 2 TEL AVIV, Thurs (UPI> —lsrael officially todav denied a report in the Cairo newspaper Al-Ahram that Israel has called up its military reserves. An Israeli military spokesman said: "This is Just more propaganda. I can officially deny it." Ther.' are always some reserves serving with
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    Lock icon DON'T LISTEN TO RUMOURS -SULTAN
    291 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. —The Sultan of Selangor today urged the people fo disregard rumours of impending trouble and co-operate with the Security Forces. The people should carry on as usual and not be unduly worried by rumours, he added. "To all the loyal citizens. I
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    Lock icon 'Mr. Flavour Man' To Test Local Market
    233 2 A British expert on drinks and ice-cream flavours will arrive in Singapore on May 27, to investigate the potentials of the local market here. He is Mr. Robert Bernard Laws, Export Sales Manager of White. Tomkins and Courage (Reigate) Ltd., a British firm
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    Lock icon Cambodia A Worry To Scheel
    124 2 JAKARTA, Thurs. (Reuter) West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel said today the American and South Vietnamese action inside Cambodia made »he Asian and Pacific conference more important than ever. Herr Scheel told a press conference on arrival at Jakarta airport that West Germany favoured the
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    Lock icon 'Way To Peace' -Pope
    202 2 VATICAN CITY, Thurs. (Reuter) —Pope Paul said to<hy that a lack of reference to higher moral principles was one of the factors which most seriously threatened peace in the world. In an apparent reference to the extension of the war in Indochina, the Pope said that
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    Lock icon Gold Prices Edge Higher
    85 2 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI> Gold prices moved slightly higher in routine trading Wednesday after several sessions of sharp gains on markets here and abroad. In London gold rose 2 cents at the morning fixing, but lost 1J cents for a second fixing of U5538,225 a troy
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    Lock icon Sav 'Cheese' More Often, Please...
    195 2 A cheese manufacturers' representative is coming here to promote more sales for English cheese and dairy products. He is Mr. Tony Vernon, Managing Director of Murray Vernon (Sales) Ltd., of Haslir.gton, Cheshire, who will be here for a two-day visit, to meet importers and exporters
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    Lock icon OFF TO EXPO
    37 2 MR Sim Kwang Yak. general manager of Monocrafts Diary Manufacturers. left for Japan on Tuesday to visit the Expo 1970. Mr Sim. who was accompanied by his wife, will be away until May 28.
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      120 2 Made in Germany GOOD NEWS FO WANT TO BE I AND ENERGETIC LIKE YOUNG MAN? A Mart taking "SENILEX" to-day. According to l»r Kicb Weiss. MP S, F-C.B. In Germany. Awarded fin Gold Medals by International Exhibition. •Senile* is a special compound of Ginseng. lonic herbs mixed with deer-horn powder
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      38 2 TOTO DRAW In last night's Toto Draw the following numbers were drawn: 15, 9, 2, 8, and 36. Th e additional number picked was: 28. In the three circle draw the following numbers were picked: 9, 7, 25
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    Lock icon BEAUTIES GALORE
    71 4 BEAUTIES from 42 countries clad in their national costumes pose at a park in front of Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 6. All are participants in the Miss International Beauty Pageant which will be held on May 16 at the Festival Plaxa in the Expo site, Osaka.
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    Lock icon A Documentary About Beatles
    243 4 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Beatle fans, depressed by stories of their idols breaking up and going their own way, will have two more chances to see them in all their former glory. Apple, the Beatles' organisation, said last night work had starte on a documentary film about
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    Lock icon Gunshot Mars Demonstration
    78 4 ROME. Thurs. (UPI) A single gunshot marred an otherwise peaceful demonstration bv thousands of young left-wingers Wednesday night against U.S. intervention in Cambodia. The shot fired through a window at a building housing three Roman newspapers. brought police vans rushing to the scene and snarled Roman traffic
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    Lock icon Ground, Air Raids Over Suez Canal
    177 4 CAIRO Thurs (CPI) Ground and air fighting raged for the second straight day Wednesday along the embattled Sues Canal front shattering a brief truce in which Lgypt and Israel exchanged civilians across tho waterway. A military spokesman said the exchange of heavy artillery fire
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    Lock icon Herbal Hope For Bald Men
    101 4 BELGRADE. Thurs (UPI) —A herbal reparation with excellent "healing properties" mav help bald men all over the world to ~row hair on their heads, two Yugoslav clinics announced Wednesday. Magister of Pharmary Cedomir Mitic, of the small eastern Yugoslav town of Pirot. has won official
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    Lock icon Saint Murderer Dies With Victim's Photo
    204 4 MACERATA. Italy. Thurs. (Reuter) Aiessandro Serenelll the man who murdered a saint ha* died in a monastery here with a picture of his victim by nis bedside. Serenelll, 88, had been bedridden since he broke his right hip in a fall in February and
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    Lock icon Ministers Sacked Over Guns Charge
    230 4 DUBLIN. Thurs. (UPI) Premier Jack Lynch told a hushed Parliament on Wednesday night he had dismissed two of his key ministers because they had allegedly supplied guns to the Roman Catholic minority in Northern Ireland. He said the ministers, Neil T. Blaney of Agriculture and
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    Lock icon Girl Weds Cop Who Shot Her
    102 4 MILAN, Thurs. (Reuter) An attractive Italian rrl, Michelina Petronl. 24 has married a 35-year-old Policeman who twice shot her through the head in a fit of jealously. Now, as the bride of Carabinleri officer Lorenzo Carducct she will give evidence on her husband's behalf
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    Lock icon Grey Gets Journalist Of The Year Award
    206 4 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Anthony Grey, Reuter correspondent who was held prisoner for 26 months in Peking, yesterday received his award as Journalist of the Year In the International Publishing Corporation (IPC) national press awards for 1969. Presenting the award, which carries a prize
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    Lock icon Opinion Polls Favour Wilson
    359 4 LONDON, Thurs. (UPI) Prime Minister Harold Wilson's chances of winning a ne* ffve year mandate received a fresh boost in opinion polls Wednesday. But his government and ruling Labour Party remained split over the Indochina conflict. A po'l conducted by the Opinion Research Centre for the
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    Lock icon HEART MAN WEAKENS
    82 4 CAPE TOWN South Africa. Thurs (UPI) The condition of South Africa's longest surviving heart transplantee Pieter Smith has slightly deteriorated." an official hospital bulletin said Wednesday. Smith underwent an abdominal operation 10 days ago. On May 1 Groote Sfhuur Hospital doctors reported a "slight deterioration" in his
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    Lock icon Pollution: Soviet Just As Guilty
    359 4 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (UPI) The United States isn't the only criminal where pollution is concerned. What Russia is doing to its seas and streams should not be allowed to happen. According to recent Soviet publications pollution, particularly oil pollution, has been especially tough on the Sturgeon
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    Lock icon Europe Commemorates End Of World War 2
    534 4 LONDON. Thurs (Feuter) Kings, presidents and prime ministers will bow their heads in silence at ceremonies tomorrow (Friday) to commemorate the enri of war in tump* „'5 years ago So will many humbler people who remember how the war changed their lives. In
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    Lock icon 'Women In Love' Film Banned
    89 4 ROME Thurs (RenterItaly has banned the British film version of D H Lawrence's novel "Women in Love*' which features nude love scenes Pol ire sei/.<>d the filrr, starring Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson —on the orders of the Attorney General. The clamp down rame only
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    Lock icon Couple Sues 2 Pill Companies
    143 5 BITFALO. New York. Thurs (UPI) —Mr. and Mrs. Ed<vard Cranford flled a SS3 million demage suit yesterday in the federal court against the manufacturers of two birth control pills rh" two companies named in The suit are G D. Searle and Co. of Chicago and
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    Lock icon U.S. Senate Approves Space Fund
    146 5 WASHINGTON. Thurs TPI) The Senate approved a 559.9 billion Space Acency budget yesterday. If rejected protests that It was spending more for a?tronau f 'playthings" than pressing education and health needs. The Ss42 billion programme for 'h* National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (NASA), is the
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    Lock icon PRIESTS AND NUN HELD FOR PROTEST
    145 5 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (UPI) A federal judge yesterday handed out iail terms to 9 anti-war protestors. including four priests and a nun. Thev were convicted of ransacking the Dow Chemical Company oUces here on March 22. 1960. Police arrested the defendants inside the Dow offices.
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    Lock icon 2 Women Oppose Sex Equality
    229 5 WASHINGTON. Thors (t'PI) Two Michigan •women yesterday broke with their sisters by opposing: a proposed constitutional amendment to assure equality of the sexes. •"Absolute legal equalitv is impossible." Mrs. John Fine"an, Chairman of the Michigan Women's Commission, ueciarei. A Senate Judiciary SubCommittee is studying the
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    Lock icon TRUDEAU STARTS PACIFIC TOUR ON SUNDAY
    541 5 OTTAWA. Thurs (Reuter> Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau leaves on Sunday for an 18-day tour of the Pacific region. This is part of Canada s push towards a wider a»d in 3r e up-to-date foreign policy posture. in each of the five centres he is
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    Lock icon AMERICA'S STUDENT UNREST WORSENS: ANTI-WAR RALLY AT WHITE HOUSE TOMORROW
    607 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) Government officials today raced the clock to placate America's enraged youth. The unrest is threatening President Nixon with a weekend of anti-war turmoil at his White House doorstep The opponents of American involvement In Cambodia seemed determined
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    Lock icon WALLACE'S COMEBACK CHECKED
    92 5 MONTGOMERY. Alabama. Thurs. (Reuter) —Alabama voters, one-quarter nf them have checked the attempt bv former Governor George Wallace to win a comeback for his segregationist policies. With 85 per cent of votes cast on Tuesdav in th<» Democratic primarv election for governor counted. Wallace was trailing the
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      178 5 If you were over New York today you Id want to be there with specialists how about Hong Kong When you fly anywhere you choose the airline with the most experience and specialised knowledge. In all Asia, one airline alone has spent 24 years in building the experience and specialisation
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    Lock icon THE GAME OF CHESSGENEVA STYLE
    940 6 T>RTTAIN, Trance and the U.N. Secretary General have strongly endorsed the convening of a Geneva Conference to halt expansion of the war in Indochina. Britain is the co-chairman of the Geneva Conference along with the Soviet Union while France is the former colonial power that
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    Lock icon Will Things Fall Apart For The Blimps?
    895 6  -  TS&* ■:\ye By DEREK INGRAM GEMINI LONDON: On June 1, South Africa's all-white cricket team it due to arrive for a truncated season of matches in Britain. To a lorge section of the community though, perhaps, not to the majority no visitors in
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    Lock icon Fortune Told By Computer
    936 6  -  By Desmond Zwar GEMINI JONDON: The horo* pcope for Mr. Fdwin Brooks, Labour MP for Rebington. according to the London Dailv Mail's Orion: "Arrange to do something which gives pleasure as well as a sense of accomplishment." What Mr Brooks intended doing might give him pleasure
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    Lock icon RUSSIANS BOOST EGYPT'S MORALE
    801 6  -  By RICHARD HALL UONDON: Prtil. dent Gamal Abdul Nasser is now seeing the advontage sving hit way in the long confrontation with Israel. In Coiro there has been elation since mid-April at the series of air strikes deep into enemy -occupied Sinai. Egypt feels it has
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    Lock icon The Step And The Status Ladder
    439 6  -  By Dick West WASHINGTON Som* months am a young woman who appeared on an early morning television show in New York lamented In an intervirw that she Is seldom recognised by head waiters. Her face is familiar to million* of televiewers she said but
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    Lock icon VERY DULL DAY AT THE MARKET
    333 7 A VERY dull market was experienced in the Stock Exchange yesterday. Prices fell across the board with many counters unchanged while those which were up, were still below the prices of the previous close. The turnover stands at 1/131,500 units and was th« lowest
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    Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
    842 7 TDUSINISi done in and reported to th» trading rooms of the Stock Exchanqe of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS Aleao Industries $1 60 (6) s:«i (1) $lB2 (2) DIM 14 (1>; Borneo Rbd
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    Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
    467 7 ARHIVAL8 1l% am >1 s A i?"» K l.mnpur <0 a m MM l !'t K l.mnpur iftam MvA 452 K l.nmpiir 11 a m MM 4M Penarg. K Lumpur 11 5oam MM 203 Jakarui 138pm M > 1 4">1 kuthmj <30pm Mv\ Oil k. Lumpur. Malacca SVipm
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    Lock icon RUBBER: 57 5/8 Cfs.
    273 7 May first grade rubber buyers closed at I p.m in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 57| cents per lb. down one and a half cents from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. After yesterday's Hurry the market settled back to lower
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    98 7 I'rue* for Mi« ft) I H %M 1 HM> 1 Ml THl T» ft Growth Minrt 1 M* 1 10 %hlA 1 NIT 1KI»1» M »>un<9 *rt 1 20 i ta HVOlPOKt 1 Ml TNI >»T* 1»l *ingapor* 2 M Snd fllmiiNirf 1 ftt 3rd Mnppnri M'Hrt Tin-
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    Lock icon $16.8 Mil. Boost For C-Mart Agriculture
    299 7 BRUSSELS, Thurs. Reuteri Th e luropean Common Merfcet Executive Commission's latest plant fc» reforming Europe a n agriculture would cos# Ssl 6 8 million over tho next five years Com miuioner for Agriculture, Dr. Sitco Mant*holt said here la-et night. Half this sum wouSd
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    Lock icon STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING PRICES
    741 7 BID and offer pric v s» offictatly listed yester«iy at the close of business in the trading roomj of tjhe Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore wen: I.NUI JiTRIALH M A« MA cbi lb? 3 IMI All'Htl <%m«U t liui- |v m .v o IVhi uru
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    89 7 Till- ivmn nrirt* ii 1 the -m«nj»i»re Product Kacnan«e «fr»; H B < nrunm oil (1 OH Mum MOO 1 flrnnoi (ill iro»i orunt fll Ml t <tf»r« >C IH' Munich Uhlf* Pf-ppfr f» OII k i»;w> MMWllli Willie Prptfl row i IMIftO -pirml HU«k l**pppr it UK i
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    Lock icon Hons Kong Money
    124 7 HONG KONG. (UP!) Thursday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd). (Buyers) (Sellers) 194.9 195.9 per 100 Straits dollars 143.5 149.5 per 1,000 Taiwan dollars 674 6.75 per Australian dollar 340 360 per 1.000 Burmese kvata 480 500 per 1.000 Indian rupees 150
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    Lock icon Support For Industrials
    386 7 Sydney Stocks, J w<? if AP+ l M m Closing Prices SYDNEY, Thurs. (UPI) More support for industrial leaders 6HP and CSR Thursday slowed a slide of mining stocks on the Sydney Stock Exchange. The added confidence In these two stocks was due mainly to strengthening support
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    Lock icon TIN PRICE
    12 7 The tin prte# ye*t«rdaf was $702-1/2 per pie"' down $3/4.
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      438 7 THE BANK OF Ej BALANCE SHEET AT Hone Kong Currency 1969 1968 SHARE CAPITAL Authorised I 2.000.000 Ordinary Shares of HKSB* eaety ISO 900 000 Issued and Kully Paid 1.200 000 Ordinary Shares of HKJ2S tarh ..I 3O*onooo 20 000 000 OENERAL RESERVE 36.500,000 41,500.000 PROFIT AND LOSS APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT
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    Lock icon Nigeria Four Month After: Relief Is Still Patchy
    702 8  -  By ALAN RAKE LONDON: The problems of Nigeria's relief operations continue to multiply. The East Central State National Rehabilitation Commission is not functioning properly and is not playing its proper part in relief operations. This is the message emerging from the wartorn
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    150 8 THESE are the recent issues of stamps by the Republic of China, on Chinese Opera. Chinese opera is China's national drama with a history spanning 1.000 years. Though like Western opera it combines singing, recitative. acting and dancing. Chinese opera has its unique feaJures The small
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    Lock icon Precept & Practice
    405 8  - Precept Practice By IAN TICKLE BERNE, Switxerland; In spite of much effort, the Soviet authorities and those of other East European countries have not been able to prevent stories cominq out of how African students hasve been ill-treated in their countries. There have been many articles and hooks on this
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    Lock icon Drug Users: Mum's Motives May Be Sincere...
    670 8  -  DATELINE »T Ele,Walt Dulaney Dear Ele and Walt: It's the fad now to talk and joke about tirugs a lot. The other day I wa» over at my l:«st girlfriend's house and we were kidding £i|>out all the capsules and pot going around
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    Lock icon Aussie School Has A Captain Of Music
    494 8 MELBOURNE, Australia: School captain, head prefect, dux these are familiar titles at any school. But at Scotch College, the Melbourne school which Is undertaking the first concert tour of Southeast. Asian countries by a schoolboy chnlr and orchestra there Is an additional appointment
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    Lock icon New Hope For The Blind
    268 8  -  By MEHR KAMAL KARACHI Fortv blind men are opening the eyes of Pakistan to a new responsibility toward the sicht'ess Led by Fatlma Shah a blind woman doctor, the men are working in factories and proving that the country s one million blind people need
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      62 8 THE WIZARD OF ID by John Saunders and Aiden McWilliams DON'T you DARE PUNISH THIS CHILD, TRILBV'TICO WAS A GREAT HELP, AND A w PERFECT k\, GENTLEMAN/ r IN FACT, I MAY BE THE i ONLY WOMAN IN HIVOR/j TO BE LOST AT SEA WITH TWO MEN OF HONOR v
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      17 8 "Daddy, if you bad it all to do over again, would 1 be included in your plans?"
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    Lock icon Leslie Caron's Career Takes A Happy Turn
    563 9  -  Speaking for Myself^ By Sheilah Graham NEW YORK: Leslie Caron's career, in low gear for the past few years, is now active again. She is currently in Israel starring ir. "Madron" with Richard Boone. But her happiest news Is the fact that in
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    Lock icon Women Who Should Seek Professional Help
    551 9  -  Ann Landers F)EAR ANN: In a recent column you said the safest place to be during an electrical storm is in a car. A number of years '9O th e National Geographic Society published the results of extensive experimentation with relation to the action
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    Lock icon FABRIC LOOK IN COTTON KNIT
    602 9  -  By Florence de Santis Women may be slinking around trying to look decadent in clothes inspired by such Thirties movies as "The Damned," but the average boy this summer will look like quite another kind ot Thirties. His fashions will be inspired by the winter
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    Lock icon Ideal Figure Is One's Own
    205 9 A Lovelier You By Mary Sue Miller Individual proportion? are the measure of an Ideal figure. What your measurements should be is determined by your own height and bory structure. Just so. you must never try to mold your figure into tiie Image of another
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    379 9  -  By Vernon Scott HOLLYWOOD Three Los Angeles theatres currently are playing motion pictures involving the new attitudes toward pornography in Denmark with audiences limited to adults. The three films are: "Pornography: Copenhagen 1970." "Sexual Freedom in Denmark" and "Pornography In Denmark." They
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      290 10  -  By Jimmy Lad JIM, with A.K. Cheam up, did a smart 3f sprint in 37-3/5 on a yielding track at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. It was the fastest time of the day. Amusement IV showed improvement when he galloped at a steady pace on the
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      124 10 CHESTER. England, Thurs. (Reuter) Altogether owned by W.B. Bolton won the Chester Cup handicap run over two miles, two furlongs and 100 yards here yesterday. R. Dawson's Hickleton was second with Lady Iveagh's Octavo third of 21 runners. Bill Bentley rode Altogether. Ernie Johnson Hickleton
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      279 10 D-Cup A SecondClass Tourney Unless... SYDNEY Thurs. (Reuter) The Davis Cup will become a second-class competition unless it Is thrown open to professional players. two Australian tennis officials said last night Cliff Sproule. Chairman of Australia's tennis selectors and Esca Stephens. President of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association.
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      62 10 The Chinese Girls' School will hold their fourth annual athletic meet at the Monk's Hill Secondary School ground toda v at 2.00 p.m. Brigadier T J. D Campbell. Director General Staff Division. M-I.D. will give awa v the prizes at the end of the St Joseph's Institution
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      50 10 MILAN. Italy Thurs. (UPl)—Feijenoord of Rotterdam beat Celtic of Scotland 2—i after extra time last nieht at San Siro Stadium to become the first Dutrh side to win the European Champions Soccer Cup. Score after 30 minutes was 1— l with both goals coming in the first half.
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      2594 10 I Race 1: CI. 5 Div. 4 6 Furs.—2.15 P-m. ($6,000) 1. ***** Maulana 6v 9 00 Sultan of Pahang Daniels 6 a. ***** Durango 4v 9 00 HT Wee Daniels S 3. ***** Lord Carrig 4y 8 12 Carng Hedd> 12 4. ***** 1
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      234 10 RIO DE JANEIRO. Thuro. fßeuten The 71 remaining cars in the World Cup rally were unloaded here yesterday for the final stretch to Mexico City over some of the world's wildest country including a pass blocked by snow. The drivers now face gruelling: 12.000-mile
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      152 11 The New Zealand Thomas Cuppers face cne of their toughest test when they meet Indonesia in the quar-ter-finals of the Thomas Cup at Kuala Lumpur on May 28-29. Mr. JefT Robson, the coach, said this on their arrival at the Paya Lebar International airport last
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      548 11 TEL AVIV, Thurs. (Reuter) Israel, rated among the 500 to one outsiders, will not be the weakest team competing in the World Cup fina's in Mexico, according to their coach Emanuel Schaffcr. Their all-amateur squad leave today for the United States on the
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      369 11 BRUSSELS, Thurs. (Reuter) A place in the quarter-finals it the summit of Belgium's ambition in the Mexico World Cup finals, but many experts rate the attack-minded Belgians as dangerous contenders for one of the top placings. Leading clubs Standard Lieqe and Anderlecht, who
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      67 11 ROME. Thurs. (Reuter) Australian Johnny Famechon. who defends his world featherweight boxing title against Mexican Vicente Saldivar here on Saturday, yesterday seemed to have partially recovered from his poor form earlier this week. To the delight Oj trainer Ambrose Palmer. Famechon bounced freely round the
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      40 11 GUADALAJARA. Mexico. Thurs. (Reuter> Brazil's World Cup soccer team, playing at half pace handed out a soccer lesson to Mexican First Division champions Guadalajara before a capacity 75.000 spectators at the Jalisco Stadium here last night, winning 3-0.
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      363 11 LONDON. Thurs. (Reutcr) Mickey Stewart chalked up the 46th century of his career when he steered Surrey through two collapses against Sussex at Hove in yesterday's English County cricket programme. Surrey lost three wickets for nine runs shortly before lunch and subsequently saw
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      453 11 NEW YORK. Thurs (Reuter The world champion New York Mets edged the Los Angeles Dodgers. 5-4. last night to pull within one-and-a-half games of the Idle Chicago Cubs, leaders in the National League's eastern division. Tom Seaver pitched his sixth straight victory for the Mets' win.
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